document.writeln("<table><tr><!-- Design Story INTRO --><td align=left valign=top width=25%><a href=http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2005/0105/design_1-1.html><img src=http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2005/0105/images/12586_image_1.150.jpg width=150 height=150 border=0 alt='ArchWeek Image'></a></td><td align=left valign=top width=75%><p style='text-align: left'><a href=http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2005/0105/design_1-1.html><font size=+0 face=Helvetica,Arial color=#000000>MIXED SMOKE SIGNALS</font></a></p><p style='text-align: left'>Washington D.C. has long been a conservative city for architecture, at least since Pierre L'Enfant laid out the city in 1791. As decreed by the McMillan Plan of the early 1900s, buildings could be no taller than the <a href='http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/United_States_Capitol.html'>U.S. Capitol</a> dome. This has resulted in a low-scale skyline that some find retrograde for a world capital.</p><p style='text-align: right'><a href=http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2005/0105/design_1-1.html><img src=http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/images/continue.gif width=96 height=22 border=0 alt=Continue...></a></p></td></tr></table>");
